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Amaryllia, Infirmary
Master, Healer Hall
Description:
Of middling height, Amaryllia is maybe two fingerbredth's
shorter than average for a grown woman, and bears the physique
of an active woman, slender, but with strong arms, and hard,
calloused hands. Long, creamy gold hair frames her generously
dimpled face, though it has been swept back into a severe
braid, not even a single strand allowed to break free. She's
a pretty woman, though the way she stares at the world with
cloaked indignation through her pale blue eyes makes her distantly
so. Bearing herself with dignity, always, Amaryllia appears
almost timeless in her own way, though she's probably in her
late thirties.
What few feminine curves Amaryllia bears are well-hidden
beneath her serviceable garb, her sturdy, pale blue shirt
too shapeless to hint at anything. She wears with it light
brown breeches, clearly a concession to comfort, which tuck
in to her low, unpolished brown boots. On colder days, she
wears a knitted jumper, it's v-neck low enough so that the
collar of her shirt can sit tidily above it. On her shoulder,
she wears a starched knot in purple and white; the amount
of loops and knots within it mark her as Craftsecond of
the Healer Craft.
Biography:
Amaryllia was the eldest born of Amarse and Auryllia's children,
which eventually numbered fifteen, of a small hold near
Southern Boll. Her childhood was mostly without event, save
for, when she was close to ten turns, the death of the sibling
next-to-closest to her own age. Tomar was closer to her
than Auralia, her closest sibling, and his death was just
about the end of her childhood - she ended up leaving the
family hold, witht he permission of her father, and ended
up travelling with traders for the next turn. At twelve,
she decided to become a Healer, and apprenticed herself,
eventually becoming a very close friend of Rillanon, a fellow
apprentice.
Rillanon ended up Searched, and although she didn't Impress,
this all but ended the friendship, and thus, Amaryllia turned
lonely in her quest towards Journeymanship, eventually walking
the tables at eighteen. Immediately, almost, she was posted
to Ista Weyr, and found herself a niche of sorts, although
her hardened attitude made friendships difficult to come
by. Close to twelve turns later, she was recalled to the
Hall in order to teach some of her particular techniques
of Infirmary management; to her hidden surprise, not so
many months later, a grilling from Craftmaster Ayanne and
Craftsecond Sauscony landed her a Master's knot, and control
of the infirmaries.
Several turns later (the most of which Amaryllia spent
tormenting apprentices, and otherwise running her infirmaries
exceedingly well), Sauscony stepped down, and Amaryllia
was asked to take her place as Craftsecond of the Healers.
She, of course, accepted.
Fiora, Blue Lienth's Rider, Telgar Weyr
Description:
Forever short, and probably forever slim, she is also firmly
muscled, although one-time pregnancies have added a roundness
to her otherwise flat middle, and added fullness to her breasts.
She has eyes of deep amber, and a long defined nose, wide,
full lips, and a slim, oval face. Her skin is clear alabaster,
or ivory, with only a little color, contrasted by her raven
black locks, which have grown to just on her shoulders, held
back by a polished clip. A scar weaves its way along her hair-line,
faded with age, but still ever noticeable.
Short in stature is she, standing at little more than five
foot three, or so, she is mostly devoid of feminine curves,
although age -- and she appears to be about forty turns
old -- has added a slight roundness to her form. Dressed
comfortably in wherhide breeches dyed black, and a simple
shirt invariably shaded in metalic blue, malachite green
or bright orange, her attire is simple, yet sophisticated.
A common accessory is her black riding jacket, with lining
of brilliant orange. Upon her shoulder is her knot - wingrider,
riding blue, at Telgar Weyr.
Lienth
Imagine an amalgamation of metal -- gleaming like blue flames
in the sun -- crushed and battered until colors spiral and
twist in webs of blue and purple and silver, forever weaving
it's patterns in molten glory across this blue. The darkness
of an enchanted evening over the widest blue ocean gives
leave to gleams of silver and cobalt that dance a firey
dance across his wingsails, wavering unceasingly as they
are battered by a stormy sky, reflected in pinions of royal
purple. A stark battlefield plays amid his torso, where
shimmers of azure wreck havoc on battered steel, all defeated
as a flaming sun makes coppery limbs dance with the brightest
blue sheen. Below his belly, silver flashes give way to
purple flames and curls of sapphire unable to cease their
endless tangle of power and might, eventually numbed by
the reflection cold and unbaring copper in the form of his
tapering talons. Grey iron constructs his head, held high
and firm, liquified in a dance of tremulous tantrums, stricken
by a heated flame.
Lienth has aged somewhat since finding his Fiora on the
Fortian sands, some 20 Turns, 8 months, and 21 days ago,
but has retained his happy -go-lucky attitude, even now.
He's not a large blue, at about 26 meters long with a wingspan
of 43.31 meters.
Biography
Twin daughters were born to two Lemosian bakers - Maleka
and Fiora, as different as night is to day, in personality
as well as looks. As young adults, Maleka turned her attentions
towards the Healer Craft, and apprenticed there, but it
took Fiora until she was sixteen to decide that she wanted
to follow the path of her parents, and be a Baker. She was
eventually apprenticed, after some hesitation, and ended
up posted to Fort Weyr, a place she fit in nicely with from
the first. Her search, some time later, came as a surprise
to her - as did her Impression, to a blue dragon named Lienth.
She eventually ended up Wingsecond, and then Wingleader,
and gave birth to a daughter - Beer, called Alainor - in
her early twenties. Several turns later, she transfered
to Telgar after a near-miscarriage of her second child,
and Weyrmated long-running crush, A'len, a few months after
giving birth to twins, Airene and Arenan. Again, she was
promoted, becoming Wingsecond for Starblaze for some eight
turns, before changes in wing structure had her moved around,
and she gratefully retired to more or less obscurity as
a wingrider in Thunderbolt. C'haer, Blue Lhadrinth's Rider, Kalseru Weyr
Description
Inset into a face lined with the fewest of creases - which
only serve to add depth and charm to his features - deep
brown eyes have a sparkle of their own, which, set against
absurdly long eyelashes, give him an almost prettiness.
More rugged are his other features: nose creviced and almost
hook-shaped, lips soft, but slim, even if his smile is warm.
Hair, blond, and tousled, lends him no dignity, although
it upholds his peaceful expression - even if it hardly admits
to his age; a solid 45 turns, or thereabouts. Achingly skinny
limbs extend to give him height, his whole body seemingly
insubstantial.
His oversized shirt hangs loosely over his wirey frame,
unfilled by his slim chest, but matches his eyes in its
deep, smooth brown colour. Breeches are, conversely, verging
on tight fitting, which illustrate his muscles, although
legs remain slim visibly through the deep blue fabric,
ends disappearing into his thigh-length boots of brown
leather. Shoulder sports the Kalseru knot of a rider,
the strand of blue remarking upon his lifemate's colour.
Lhadrinth
Neither greater nor lesser of size than others of his
color, Lhadrinth nevertheless has a kind of size about
him, a presence carried by the paleness and gleam of his
hide. He is the blue of moonlight on the clearest snowy
night, a thing unknown at Kalseru and thus the more intriguing
and beautiful for its rarity. In dim light, his silver-blue
shade seems to glow, set off by the jewel-toned eyes,
slightly large for his head with its short, rounded muzzle
and backswept headknobs and ridges. Curves and hollows
capture and enhance his shade, deepening to blue midnight
shadows, lining ridges and wingbones, washing foggily
across translucent wingsails and shading across his sides
and tail. A silent sort, he nevertheless is difficult
to overlook.
Biography
Cyrhaern was the third of six sons, born to a pair of
Journeyman Beastcrafters at Keroon. He, like all of his
siblings, joined the Beastcraft in due course, although
he himself ended up working with a Master at Ista Hold
whose interests in smaller animals matched his own. He
proved to be a capable apprentice, finding special talents
in the workings of firelizards, and their training. At
seventeen, however, he was picked up for search, and ended
up Impressing blue Lhadrinth at Ista Weyr.
For turns, he merely served in the wings, neither altogether
brilliant, nor a dunce, at what he did. For a brief while,
he weyrmated, but that fell apart in due course. When
the pass ended, C'haer took back to his firelizard-training
talents, and became a more official worker in this capacity,
which eventually indeared him to Kalseru, when that Weyr
opened, which provoked his transfer there at the age of
fourty-three. Hanneke, green Caeruleth's rider, Ista Weyr
Description
Delicate curls of tawny golden brown frame her face in somewhat
lopsided formations, like a crown of rich hue: releasing sturdy,
but infinately fine face to its creamy pale delineation and
refined features. Alabaster contrasts doe-like eyes of a watery
blue, plentiful depths vacant in singular delight, whilst
defined nose adds an elegance manifest within gentle lips
and lengthy neck. Just below average in height, figure maintains
an vaguely rounded, firm formation: womanly curves obvious,
amid smooth form, beneath her sturdy garb.
Black and orange cords wind together, looping once beneath
her arm, the string knotted four times to mark her as a
Wingsecond, whilst an extra cord of green indicates her
lifemate's colour.
Creamy leather is tooled into fine jacket; pale blue stitching
adding graceful bent to the fitting garment, tied about
the waist with a smooth belt. Beneath, shirt of pale blue
-- matching stitches perfectly -- and pink, in geometric
design, suits complection, tucked tidily into nicely fitting
breeches of a similar leather form. Boots; dark, older,
more worn, sit upon dainty feet, finishing outfit in cool
complacency.
Caeruleth
Shadows wreak havoc upon this diminutive mistress of the
night, dark forest greens twining with lighter, more verdant
shades along her long sinuous neck, while crisscrossing
malachite patterns dapple her smoothed-down neckridges.
A narrow, angular frame is swathed in moonlight, her dancer's
belly rounding out and paling to a gaudy shade of lime -
a snaky whiplash tail coated in a deep moss green, is flecked
with specks of green-blue, adding more color to the monochrome
appearance. Lanky limbs offset bodily proportions, sharp
talons etched from black marble. Vaguely oversized wings
could easily been deemed 'svelte' in their velvety darkness.
Biography
Hanneke is the daughter of two rather eccentric crafters
- a harper and a healer - born at the Harper/Healer Halls,
but raised in Lemos, when her mother was posted there. She
was always a pretty child, and, as she grew older, became
clearly obvious as a stupid one, too. No matter how hard
her parents tried, they could not manage to teach her how
to 'think', as they put it, and thus, when she was in her
early teens, she was sent to the Harper Hall to apprentice,
and to be taught this very valuable skill.
For what it's worth, Hanneke was a woeful Harper, truly
the bane of most of her teachers, and there was probably
a general sigh of relief when she was picked up for search
by blue Inigoth of Ista Weyr. Following a rather tumultuous
candidacy, Hanneke found her lifemate in green Caeruleth,
and eventually became part of the Phoenix Wing, after an
equally tumultuous weyrlinghood. For the longest time -
several turns - it could not be said that Hanneke was any
better a rider than a harper, but evidently her Wingleader
Kr'lin thought differently, promoting her to Wingsecond
at the age of twenty.
Arilla, Blue Emorith's Rider, Weyrlingmaster, Who Knows Weyr
Description
Arilla is a tall woman, her gangly limbs giving her an elongated,
out-of-proportion look that is only added to by her slim stature,
making her all angles, no curves. She's not a pretty woman,
although her pale lips form a neat bow, features maintaining
a sharp, well-defined outline - no doubt too sharp in the
case of her oddly hooked nose. Her hair is long and vaguely
waved, the ice-brown locks bundled up into a serviceable bun
to keep her vision, through mysteriously dark charcoal-grey
eyes, their closeness gives her an oddly cross-eyed look.
She's probably in her mid-thirties, although it's hard to
know for sure.
No's tropical warmth has ensured that she's given up traditional
riding leathers for something far more serviceable, her
light breeches made loose to allow the air to circulate.
Her equally light woven shirt, in a pale brown colour, is
worn untucked from her breeches, obscuring at most times
the belt of deep grey she wears snug about her middle. Heavy
boots are a concession to practicality, built for strength
and endurance. The tangled knot upon her shoulder indicates
that she's one of the refugees from Who Knows, and that
her rank is Weyrlingmaster, her lifemate blue.
Emorith
Even in the most poverty-stricken parts of town where refuse
litters narrow crooked alleyways, and where hope is discarded
like just another empty bottle, the clear azure midwinter
sky arcs overhead, providing the residents no warmth, but
a glimpse of the world beyond. This vision of beauty is
free and visible to all, its clarity lending a sense of
hope that is echoed over the hide of this cerulean blue
dragon. Like that endless sky, his smooth hide is clear
and unblemished, fading somewhat -- as the sky does near
the horizon -- to a paler, but no less perfect, cornflower
blue in the most distal regions of his limbs and wingtips.
As though eclipsed, his neck ridges deepen to twilight shadows
partially illuminated by glowlight, a sense of movement
evident in the multiple shadings of indigo that flicker
down to his tail. Lush verdant greens trail vine-like around
the firmament of his wings, translucent lavender blossoms
frigid in the seasonal frost of his trailing edges.
Biography
Young Arin's parents wanted him to Impress more than anything,
but he fell in love with Lilla, instead, and although they
/tried/ to wait until such day as he was too old to stand,
in the end they just had to give up, and left Ista together
for wet Who Knows Weyr. Within two turns they had a daughter,
Arilla, whom they loved above all things; the lack of Impression
never crossed either of their minds again. Arilla proved
to be outgoing and energetic, occasionally a source of problems,
but more often, a genuinely likeable young person with a
strong will to succeed.
After she became too old to remain within the nurseries
of Who Knows as a charge, Arilla elected to stay on as an
Assistant Nanny, her delight in the job making her progress
to full Nanny a rapid one. She genuinely adored the children,
and thoroughly enjoyed playing games with them, and was
well known for being both enthusiastic and understanding.
She also took to running - jogging and climbing, about the
cliffs of Who Knows, her boundless energy expelled in the
physical exercise.
At the age of sixteen, however, Arilla was Searched by
Elenna's Isaryth, and accepted the offer to stand for Peribeth's
clutch, figuring that she might as well take up the experience.
Her nannying days were gone forever, however, when pale
blue Emorith found her upon the sands, hurtling her into
weyrlinghood, then riderhood in the Ivy Wing. After three
turns as a Wingrider, Sorcha accosted her with a bundle
of cords, making her Weyrlingmaster for the future classes
of weyrlings within the weyr. When Who Knows flooded, some
turns later, Arilla ended up at No Weyr, training weyrlings
that would eventually reclaim Who Know's leadership, and
take her home just in time for the birth of her one and
only child, Sharilan, the son of one of her best friends
since weyrlinghood, Sh'dan.
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